Week 9 Capstone - Frontend Can't Talk to Backend
Frontend and backend pods are both Running, but every call from frontend to backend times out. Restore the path.
Puzzle Overview
The shop team's frontend and backend deployments are both Ready in the `shop` namespace. The backend answers `/health` when you probe it from the right place, yet every request originating from a frontend pod to `backend:8080` hangs until it times out.
Nothing is CrashLooping. DNS resolves. The Service endpoints look fine. The failure is quieter than that — something in the cluster is deciding which traffic is allowed to reach the backend, and the frontend is on the wrong side of that decision.
Your job: restore frontend → backend connectivity so a request from a frontend pod to `http://backend:8080/health` succeeds.
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